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Baku/05.07.19 The Spanish police did not find the thief who stole the watch worth $ 1.3 million from the Azerbaijani tourist. Earlier in Azerbaijan they wrote about the cost of watches of the 50-03 McLaren F1 brand at 1 million, then at 1.2 million dollars. However, the Spanish newspaper Diario de Ibiza reported that at about 4:30 in the evening a thief stole from the tourist who was walking at the sea on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza, a watch worth $ 1.3 million.

This story is revealed in a Bloomberg article titled “Who Was the Man Wearing the $ 1.3 Million Watch Stolen in Spain, Azeris Wonder.”

The agency Bloomberg reports that the photo of the report of the Spanish police, which is widespread on social networks, stating that the victim, 25-year-old Azerbaijani citizen Rashad Abdullayev, is real. An informed source added that the report contains Abdullayev’s passport data and contact details, as well as the names of his mother and two friends who were with him in Ibiza.

Azerbaijani opposition parties and human rights activists stated that the victim is the son of Rovnag Abdullayev, the president of the State Oil Company (SOCAR) of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Since 2005, he is a member of parliament. 54-year-old Abdullayev, according to his biography, has a son with the same name and year of birth, writes Bloomberg.

Neither the president of the state-owned company Abdullayev, nor the SOCAR led by him publicly commented on the published information. The press service of SOCAR did not respond to repeated emails or phone calls for several days, while answering business-related questions.

The police report says that Rashad Abdullayev did not answer calls to his mobile phone from the police. The director of communications of the company, manufacturer of watches Richard Mille – Laura Hughes said that the company does not want to comment on the theft, the agency added.

President Ilham Aliyev has repeatedly warned government officials, demanding that they not lead an extravagant lifestyle and monitor the behavior of their children. The president threatened to dismiss those who did not comply with his demands. However, the president did not make a statement about the incident that took place in Ibiza on 9 June.

The agency informs readers that the average monthly salary in Azerbaijan is 581 manat ($ 343), according to the State Statistics Committee of the country, which indicates that it is impossible for the overwhelming majority of the population to buy watches worth $ 1.3 million.

In the information block of the report on the theft of watches, Bloomberg recalls the high level of corruption in oil Azerbaijan, which ranked 152 180 on the corruption perception index in 2018, along with Nicaragua and Tajikistan.

The pro-government sites of Azerbaijan, referring to the Russian “AMF” wrote that the stolen watches were fake, their price was $ 1,000, and not more than a million.

Turan

On July 3 Ali Hasanov, an assistant of the president of Azerbaijan for social and political issues, made a statement in connection with the first anniversary of the Ganja events of 2018, when a native of the city, Yunis Safarov, attempted to assassinate Ganja executive power Elmar Veliyev.

The statement of Hasanov, which is aggressive in its essence, boils down to the fact that this is the work of foreign circles, radical religious groups. Hasanov accuses the secular opposition, civil society and the country’s media in supporting and justifying the attempt, in actions against statehood and national interests.

His statement calls for supporters of the regime to take up arms against all dissidents, who criticize the authorities, and the so-called national interests in the understanding of Hasanov. However, in his statement, Hasanov did not say anything about the social and moral atmosphere in Ganja on the eve of the assassination, from which many years there were complaints and signals about popular discontent with the actions of the chief executive, galloping corruption, and derogatory treatment of citizens by Veliyev.

Hasanov cannot explain why, after the assassination, the social networks throughout the country exploded with jubilation, having learned about the attempted murder of a person for years insulting and harassing the inhabitants of Ganja.

Hasanov cannot explain why society perceived the defender of ordinary people from Robin Hood, the defender of ordinary people from bloodsucking rulers. Why the Internet has covered the orgy of joy, sometimes going beyond the bounds of decency?

Social networks, which cannot be called manageable, in contrast to the media, funded from the black box office of the regime, gave a clear public assessment, from which it follows that Safarov is a hero and Veliyev is an antihero.

According to Hasanov, whose name is often mentioned in corruption, the current government is the conductor and defender of the democratic development of Azerbaijan and the personification of the guarantee of security and stability.

Hasanov often mentions state and national interests. What public interests does the assistant to the president of the country, who ranks last in the world of corruption, suppresses the rights and freedoms of citizens, speak about? Countries that are shaken by international scandals to launder billions of dollars of money stolen from the people, bribing politicians? Corruption is anti-state, anti-national; it undermines the foundations of the state and national security. The last three years testify to that. Society and the state in its mentality rolls back or, if we paraphrase Hasanov, in the Middle Ages.

However, it should be noted that the national interests are determined by the Constitution and, in accordance with the basic law; they are primarily based on such values ​​as freedom and the protection of the rights of the individual citizen. Every person and citizen, regardless of his views, ethnic, political, religious and other affiliation.

The statement of Hasanov shows that the state, which he personifies, sees dissidents as enemies, criminals, traitors who deserve persecution and punishment.

What national interests does Hasanov speak about when the state suppresses the constitutional rights of citizens to freedom of expression, movement, assembly? When social, economic, political rights are suppressed, moral values ​​are degraded, and the rule of law is violated.

Hasanov”s statement should be viewed as a clear message to the world and local community that Azerbaijan will continue to remain a state of violence and obscurantism, intolerance and cruelty, lawlessness and voluntarism.

Hasanov reaffirmed the unshakable policy of the authorities to deepen the crisis in the country, caused by the erroneous policy of the regime, and a false interpretation of state and national interests.

Mehman Aliyev